Threat Update: Hot Summer of the APT Spearphisher
Have you felt like you’re hearing more about spearphishing in the news? There’s a reason why: in the ever-expanding landscape of cyber threats, spearphishing has increased this year as a particularly insidious (but effective) tactic employed by threat actors to breach organizational defenses. From APTs to decentralized digital mercenaries, there ... Read More
Banyan Ransomware Threat Update – May 2023
It’s popular because it’s profitable and it’s been a big moment for ransomware around the planet over the past few weeks. At Banyan, we decided to assemble the latest ransomware news for a mid-May Ransomware Threat Update (because there’s been enough of it to warrant its own blog). Ransomware has ... Read More
Three Ways to Opt Out of ChatGPT Data Sharing
Let’s keep this super-simple: the devil is in the details in any disclosure policy. If you go to the OpenAI ChatGPT FAQ, there are a few things that should raise the eyebrows of any security engineer. To that purpose, at the end of this blog, you’ll find three ways to ... Read More
Secure Access Service Edge vs. Security Service Edge
If it were an arm-wrestling match, it’s possible that SASE would beat SSE if measured by bulk force alone. But if you’ve ever watched arm-wrestling (or any kind of wrestling), sometimes power and agility count for more than size and weight. In fact, in the last quarter of 2022, SSEs ... Read More
SWG versus CASB: What’s the Difference?
It’s pronounced “swig” and it’s definitely a cybersecurity cocktail: secure web gateways are a mix of tools specifically designed to protect users and their devices while browsing the internet. If you ask Gartner, a secure web gateway must contain: URL filtering, malicious code detection and filtering, and application control for ... Read More
Malvertising and Vermux – Cybercrime Goes Mad Men
Malvertising (the nefarious practice of placing digital ads leading to malware) has been making a resurgence over the past few weeks. For quite a while, cybercriminal gangs have been making fake websites leading to downloads of well-known software that is actually malware in disguise. This latest batch of malvertising, however, ... Read More
Malvertising and Vermux – Cybercrime Goes Mad Men
Malvertising (the nefarious practice of placing digital ads leading to malware) has been making a resurgence over the past few weeks. For quite a while, cybercriminal gangs have been making fake websites leading to downloads of well-known software that is actually malware in disguise. This latest batch of malvertising, however, ... Read More
